# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvia-sidney
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:40:17.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvia-sidney"
name: "Sylvia Sidney"
slug: "sylvia-sidney"
description: "Sylvia Sidney was an American stage, screen, and film actress whose career spanned over 70 years. She rose to prominence in dozens of leading roles in the 1930s. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams in 1973. She later gained attention for her role as Juno, a case worker in the afterlife, in Tim Burton's 1988 film Beetlejuice, for which she won a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress."
tagline: "American actress (1910–1999)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sylvia_Sidney_Argentinean_Magazine_AD_(corp).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1910-08-08"
deathDate: "1999-07-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           56.72
  momentum:             2.046138415245737
  historical:           22.70552266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796662/"
    handle:    "nm0796662"
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    title: "Սիլվիա Սիդնի"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump